Patients with ESKD access hospice care only about half as often as patients in the general Medicare population. This study introduces a Concurrent Hospice and Dialysis Program that improves hospice access by offering palliative dialysis with hospice care bit.ly/j2022010064

This is the reality of dialysis. Patients usually undergo four-hour sessions three times a week, and it is time consuming, restrictive and associated with other significant health risks. We must keep looking for ways to improve it. Full video 👉 bit.ly/3pOo12V

"Ethnicity disparities in patients with #kidneyfailure in the UK". Read the latest report now: 📖 bit.ly/46jklGO Part of the UK #Renal Registry Disparities Reports - looking at age, sex, ethnicity & deprivation levels among people with kidney failure.

Early Registration Deadline for Supportive Renal Care and PD Academy Meetings is on Monday! 📢 Don't miss out the discounted rates! 📢 👉tinyurl.com/RenalCare2023 👉tinyurl.com/PDAcad2023

Dying is not a niche condition Everyone will die Yet …every hospice has closed beds Hospital palliative teams are on their knees Community palliative teams cannot cope We need a radical new approach - money will help, but we need a social creative response to death

Findings of this meta-analysis suggest that colorectal cancer screening with sigmoidoscopy may extend life by approximately 3 months; lifetime gain for other screening tests appears to be unlikely or uncertain. ja.ma/3KYTKpC

Do you use the Difficult Conversations booklet? If so, there is still time to give us feedback. Your views will help us plan our next steps! Link here: forms.office.com/e/g2MiqtxysC Kidney Care UK @kidneycareuk.bsky.social Prof Hilary Bekker (PhD) Helen Hurst Barny Paula Ormandy Fliss Murtagh The UK Kidney Association

Looking forward to presenting my research at this years WKRU AGM 'Understanding why people say "no" to a kidney transplant' #kidney transplant #decisionmaking #choice Delighted to be able to share this BMJ Open publication from my PhD ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️ bmjopen.bmj.com/content/bmjope…

Our paper is part of a fascinating CKJ supplement on treatment choice and shared decision-making for kidney patients academic.oup.com/ckj/issue/16/S… #shareddecisionmaking @jager_kitty ERA - European Renal Association Mark Lambie Dr Anna Winterbottom PhD Barny @CharlieTomson

There’s still time to register for the excellent supportive care meeting in October and the PD Academy that follows… info below 👇🏽

A secondary analysis of SPRINT using a 60 year elderly cutoff (versus 75 in the prespecified analysis) academic.oup.com/ajh/article-ab… 🔒 More benefit and more adverse effects!

Out today! The detrimental long term grief impacts of pandemic bereavement and the importance of social and professional support in enabling people to cope. Huge thanks again to all of our participants for their time and commitment to this important study! frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

Prolonged grief disorder more common in Covid lockdown bereaved, study finds theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2… Great work from Emily Harrop Lucy Selman Marie Curie Research Centre, Cardiff Cardiff University School of Medicine Cardiff Uni Comms DPM The impact of this research cannot be under estimated

Finally made the time to read this excellent paper in full. Such important and practice informing work. 1) findings might explain the gap between what clinicians recall saying, and what patients report hearing, and 2) why wasn't this snapped up by one of our biggest journals?!

📢 New paper in BMJ_Open led by Barny, from his brilliant PhD. ‘It’s basically ‘have that or die’’: a qualitative study of older patients’ choices between dialysis and conservative kidney management bmjopen.bmj.com/cgi/content/fu…